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SHAFT HANGER.

No. 606,327. Patented June 28, 1898.

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SHAFT HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,327, dated June 28, 1898. Application filed January 20, 1898.- Serial No. 667,321. (No model.)

To (all? whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREEMAN BEBOUT and Janus H. BRANDON, citizens of the United States, residing at East Liverpool, in the county of Oolumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvemen ts in Shaft-Hangers; and we do declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in shaft-hangers, and more particularly to that class of shaft-hangers employed as a bearing for the ends of the angleshafting usually run by miter or bevel gearing; and the object is to dispense with such gearing by using a mulestand and belting in connection with our improved hanger.

To this end the invention consists in the.

construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the device, as willbe hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The accompanying drawings show our invention in the best form now known to us; but many changes in the details might be made within the skill of a good mechanic without departing from the spirit of our i11- vention as set forth in the claim at the end of this specification.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved angle-shaft hanger. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

1 represents the angle-bracket formed with the integral arms 2 3 and 2 3. 2 3 are provided with the integral alined and internally-threaded hubs 4 and 5.

6 represents an externally-threaded stud adj ustably secured in the hub at by means of the set-screw 7, and the lower cylindrical end of said stud extends into a corresponding recess 8 in the semicylindrical cap 9, which also contains the upper half 10 of the babbitt box.

12 denotes the lower half of the babbitt box, and 13 the bearing-box, which is provided with the recess 14 to receive the upper end of the stud 15, the lower threaded end of which is adj ustably secured in the internallythreaded hub 5 by means of the set-screw 16.

The arms 2 3 are also provided with inte- The arms the set-screw 7, the lower cylindrical end of said stud extending into a corresponding recess 8 in the semieylindrical cap 9, which also receives the upper half 10 of the babbitt box. 12 represents the lower half of said box, and 13 the corresponding portion of the bearing-box, which is formed with the recess 14: to receive the upper end of the stud 15, the lower threaded end of which is adjustably secured in the internally-threaded hub 5 by means of the set-screw 16. This construction enables the shafts (not shown) to be supported in said bearings at any angle from an obtuse to an acute, and by means of suitable pulleys fixed on said shafts and an endless belt and mule-stand (not shown) a rotary motion may be noiselessly communicated from one shaft to the other.

Of course it will be understood that this hanger may be fixed to the ceiling, post, or post-arm and ,in any other position where it is necessary to support the meeting ends of two lines of shafting extending in opposite directions.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and useful, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

An angle-shaft hanger, comprising the bracket 1, formed with the integral arms 2, 3, and 2 3, the latter being arranged at a right angle'to the former, the alined, internally-threaded hubs at and 5 formed integral with the arms 2, 3, and the alined internallythreaded hubs 4 5 formed integral with the arms 2 3 in combination with the threaded studs 6, 15, adj ustably secured in said hubs 4 and 5, and the box-bearings 9 and 13, se-

cured between the inner ends of said studs, the studs 6 15' adj ustably secured in the hubs 4: 5, and the box-bearings 9 13 securedlbetween the inner ends of said studs 0 and 15, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

FREEMAN BEBOUT, JAMES H. BRANDON.

Witnesses:

' JAMES C. Dmnniox,

M. J. MCGARRY. 

